Wednesday, October 19, 2011

No Doubt

돌이킬 수 없는 (Dol-i-kil Soo Eobs-neun)

A family moves into the suburbs of Gyunggi-do. A while later a girl
named Mi-rim goes missing and chaos takes over the village. Mi-rim’s
father searches for his daughter and while visiting the police station
he stumbles upon a criminal record from one of the family members that
just moved. Mi-rim’s father and the villagers threaten and pacify Sejin
and his family.
The film follows the genre conventions of a thriller
yet it also contains people’s prejudices and oppression. Sejin’s past
record as a convict rids him of his individuality and his sister is on
the brink of losing her job as a kindergarten teacher. The film
questions what is true violence. The result, violence does not just
include person to person, but can be silent brought on by a community
that leads to a sacrifice of an individual. Such is the typical
mechanism, murdering individuality through the violence of a group. (LEE
Sang-yong)